2025-02-25T10:24:34-04:00

While we work for justice, we reject judging another human being’s worth or value as less than, regardless of who they are. Read more

2025-02-20T09:32:41-04:00

Enemy love means both not cooperating with, resisting or obstructing violence and injustice, and also not letting go of our enemy's humanity. Read more

2025-02-19T11:38:28-04:00

Too often turning the other cheek is interpreted as passive nonresitance rather than the cultural pushback that it was. Read more

2025-02-13T12:00:23-04:00

Luke's gospel is for the underprivileged, longing for things to be put right, those present power structures are being weaponized against. Read more

2025-02-13T11:59:39-04:00

The equity that the sermon on the plain envisions is a world where there are no more losers and survival comes through our working together. Read more

2025-02-12T10:39:19-04:00

Rather than the gospel being universal good news, the first shall be last and the last shall be first sounds quite the opposite. Read more

2025-02-06T18:22:25-04:00

The examples of the prophetic nature of fishing for people in Jeremiah, Amos, and Ezekiel, give the call in the gospels a context in justice. Read more

2025-02-06T18:23:05-04:00

The fishing metaphor was about hooking or catching a harmful, unjust, powerful person, and overturning structures of power and privilege. Read more

2025-02-06T18:22:54-04:00

Fishing never works out well for the fish! Using it metaphorically as fishing for people instead doesn’t fix that. Read more

2025-01-31T11:06:31-04:00

Today we need to pay attention to responses that answer justice movements with rage and responses that define these movements as good news. Read more


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